The state is an organized political community, living under a government states may be sovereign and may enjoy a monopoly on the legal initiation of force and ...

A unique set of social, political, and economic conditions were the basis of Burckhardt's arguments about Renaissance in which he saw the emergence of a new ...

This new culture has been termed humanism by the 19th century scholars but it does not appear in the writings of the Renaissance period. There was a term ...

Raja Ravi Verma came to widespread acclaim after he won an award for an exhibition of his paintings at Vienna in 1873. He travelled throughout India in search ...

Amir Khusrau was an Indian musician, scholar and poet. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent. A Sufi mystic and a ...

India has always believed in the harmonious relation between man and forces of nature and the importance of each season has been beautifully brought into light ...

The long period of the Pallava rule represents both rock-cut architecture and early constructed stone temples. The brick, timber, metal and mortar part could ...

The Harappan culture was distinguished by its system of town planning. Harappa and Mohenjodaro each had its own citadel or acropolis, which was possibly ...

There are different views on the origins of Urdu, differing in both time and geographic location. Urdu may have originated anywhere in India the Deccan, in ...

India being the largest democracy in the world with a civilization more than five thousand years old boasts of multiple cultural origins. The cultural origins ...

The long period of the Pallava rule represents both rock-cut architecture and early constructed stone temples. The brick, timber, metal and mortar part could ...

There are several theories as to the origin of the Indus Valley civilization. The earliest hypothesis was that it was an early form of a Vedic and early ...